Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Episode 29: My Stand-Up Comedy Debut

Ken throws caution to the wind and does his very first stand-up routine at an open mic night. You’ll hear the whole set. How did he do? You decide. He’ll also take you behind-the-scenes, before and after. It’s an exercise in either courage or stupidity depending upon how you look at it.

While channel surfing caught one of Rose's absurd stories one Golden girls and started wondering about that particuluar "tool" in writing.Like Woody's stories about his home in Indiana Rose's stories about St. Olaf ( I am sure there are other examples)vwhere not only funny as .... but so outragous one has to wonder about the minds that created the stories.Question is 1) is there a "name" or "title" ( like the restaurant reference you use about joke appearing and disappearing) 2) Is this a specialty?3) frightenly must ask if these are based upon any real incidents, occurences, events?

Very funny! I'd love to have gone to one of your dinner parties. The setups were longer than the standup routines I've seen. The target story, up through the first punchline, was 95 seconds long. If you were writing it for a character on one of your shows, how long would it be? I suspect standup would be somewhere in between.

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Named one of the BEST 25 BLOGS by TIME Magazine. Ken Levine is an Emmy winning writer/director/producer/major league baseball announcer. In a career that has spanned over 30 years Ken has worked on MASH, CHEERS, FRASIER, THE SIMPSONS, WINGS, EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, BECKER, DHARMA & GREG, and has co-created three series. He and his partner wrote the feature VOLUNTEERS. Ken has also been the radio/TV play-by-play voice of the Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres. and Dodger Talk. He hosts the podcast HOLLYWOOD & LEVINE

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